Gabriel Kolko | |
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| Born | August 17, 1932 Paterson, New Jersey, United States[1] |
| Died | May 19, 2014 (aged 81) Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Occupation | Historian, writer, educator |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Kent State University (BA; 1954) University of Wisconsin (MS; 1955) Harvard University (PhD; 1962) |
| Period | 1955–2014 (writer) |
| Genre | History |
| Subject | Progressive Era, Vietnam War, Corporate liberalism |
| Literary movement | Historical revisionism |
| Notable works | The Triumph of Conservatism, The Limits of Power (co-author w/ Joyce Kolko) |
| Notable awards | Transportation History Prize from Organization of American Historians, 1963; Social Sciences Research Council fellow, 1963–64; Guggenheim fellow, 1966–67; American Council of Learned Societies fellow, 1971–72; Killam fellow, 1974–75, 1982–84; Royal Society of Canada fellow. |
| Spouse |
Joyce Manning
(m. 1955; died 2012) |
Gabriel Morris Kolko (August 17, 1932 – May 19, 2014) was an American historian.[2] His research interests included American capitalism and political history, the Progressive Era, and U.S. foreign policy in the 20th century.[3] One of the best-known revisionist historians to write about the Cold War,[4] he was also credited as "an incisive critic of the Progressive Era and its relationship to the American empire."[5][6] U.S. historian Paul Buhle summarized Kolko's career when he described him as "a major theorist of what came to be called Corporate Liberalism...[and] a very major historian of the Vietnam War and its assorted war crimes."[7]